The Project
V&A at Dundee will be an international centre of design for the widest public, housed in a world-class building at the heart of Dundee's waterfront. It will show major exhibitions of international design, celebrate and promote the care of our own design heritage, inspire and help develop contemporary talent, and encourage design innovation for the future.
V&A at Dundee will be an international centre of design for Scotland. It will celebrate Scotland's historic importance in design and host major exhibitions of outstanding design, helping people understand their own and others' cultural heritage.
V&A at Dundee will become indispensable to makers, teachers and industry nationwide as a place for the cultivation and exchange of knowledge, opportunity and design innovation. It will develop opportunities for diverse communities to engage with, learn from and enjoy design creativity, past and present.
V&A at Dundee will play a vital role in Dundee's ambitious plans for regeneration, symbolising the city's high aspirations. It is intended that construction work will start on the V&A at Dundee site in 2013, with an anticipated opening in 2015.
A place for all
V&A at Dundee will have outstanding social spaces, making it a great place to meet, eat, relax, browse, learn and shop while enjoying the building’s architecture and its world-class location on the River Tay. V&A at Dundee will become a centre for everyone – as lead architect Kengo Kuma describes it - ‘A Living Room in the City’.
The Partners
Design Dundee Ltd (DDL) is driving the V&A at Dundee project. DDL is a partnership between the V&A, the University of Dundee, the University of Abertay Dundee, Dundee City Council and Scottish Enterprise.
The University of Dundee (ranked in the world’s top 200 universities) includes the highly regarded School of Architecture and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design - consistently rated in the top 10% of the UK’s art and design colleges over the last decade.